Is Buying an Apartment Complex a Good Investment?

Is Buying an Apartment Complex a Good Investment?

Buying apartment complexes offers investors the potential to build wealth through real estate assets that are in high demand in many parts of the country.

Ways to Invest in Industrial Real Estate Properties

Ways to Invest in Industrial Real Estate Properties

Learning how to invest in industrial real estate can help you decide if you want to add this type of investment to your portfolio.

How to Use an IRA to Buy an Investment Property

How to Use an IRA to Buy an Investment Property

If you’ve gone down the list of available investments with your IRA provider, real estate is probably not one of them. However, people do buy investment properties using their IRAs. But there’s a little work and a few fees involved to make that happen. So go over what’s needed to use your IRA to buy an investment property.

Jun 7, 2021

Can Retail Property Make A Good Investment?

Can Retail Property Make A Good Investment?

Retail property investments can be lucrative, but it is important to understand what can affect a retail property investment before deciding if it might be something you want to consider.

How to Qualify for a Multifamily Loan

How to Qualify for a Multifamily Loan

Some investors started successful careers in real estate with modest investments in small multifamily rental properties.

What is a Good Rate of Return on a Rental Property?

What is a Good Rate of Return on a Rental Property?

Before investing in a rental property, you need to know how to calculate the potential rate of return to determine whether it’s a suitable investment. Not to mention, knowing the return on investment (ROI) allows you to be a more informed investor.

What is Credit Risk?

What is Credit Risk?

Do real estate investors incur credit risk? If you are on the lending side of a real estate deal, then yes, you’re likely taking on credit risk. But what about investors buying properties or investing in real estate funds?

Jun 4, 2021

A Guide to UPREITs: What They Are, How They Work, and More

A Guide to UPREITs: What They Are, How They Work, and More

An UPREIT, which stands for Umbrella Partnership Real Estate Investment Trust, allows owners of appreciated real estate to transfer a property from individual ownership into a trust in exchange for shares in the trust. This exchange is also known as a Section 721 exchange, which is designed to allow the investor to defer capital gains taxes.

Jun 4, 2021

Why Invest in Affordable Housing?

Why Invest in Affordable Housing?

According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, there is a shortage of seven million affordable homes in this country, and 75% of extremely low-income families must spend more than half of their income on rent. There is no community in the U.S. where one person working full-time in a minimum wage job can afford the rent on a two-bedroom apartment. Further, the coalition points out that increasing access to affordable housing is the most effective way to reduce childhood poverty and improve economic mobility in the United States.

Why is Risk an Important Consideration When Investing?

Why is Risk an Important Consideration When Investing?

Without risk, there can be no return. This is the unfortunate relationship between risk and return. Investors who seek out a higher return will usually be met with higher risk. Those investors who want a lower risk investment may also have to settle for lower returns.

Jun 3, 2021

A Guide to UPREIT Transactions

A Guide to UPREIT Transactions
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